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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s third novel, translated by Janet Hong, is her first adaptation, but does not seem particularly out of step with her oeuvre. The Naked Tree was writer Park…
As something of a lapsed reader of 2000 AD as a weekly phenomenon, who these days dips into trade collections rather than following short serialised strips, I find the comic’s…
And so this week to our fourth and final look at the latest batch of mini kuš! short comics from Latvian publisher kuš! comics. For our last foray into minicomics…
Time again this week to resume our spotlight on the latest batch of mini kuš! short comics from Latvian publisher kuš! with a focus on issue #117’s ‘Grapefruit’ by Portugal-based…
Continuing our look at the latest batch of Latvian publisher kuš! comics’ mini kuš! series of short comics this week and our attention today turns to #116 – Xeric Award-winning…
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Here’s a warning of sorts: one may sigh a lot while reading Juliette by French writer and cartoonist Camille Jourdy, first published in 2016 and newly translated into English by…
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SLCZF 2023! Peter Morey’s Endswell has jumped around both narratively and chronologically since the first issue was published nearly five years ago. An autobiographical story (“based loosely on real events”),…
SLCZF 2023! As I have mentioned before on occasion here at Broken Frontier one of the great privileges of being involved with BF is getting to see work-in-progress months… or…
SLCZF 2023! Mereida Fajardo describes one of her new projects Zayani Zam (Fate’s Road) as “a silent graphic novel about loneliness and connection on the Mongolian coal road”. Interestingly when…
SLCZF 2023! Last year at Broken Frontier we followed the progress of the Reveal! Awards; an initiative for championing the work of women comics artists from Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and…
SLCZF 2023! As we continue our South London Comic and Zine Fair coverage it’s important to remind our audience that SLCZF has been so carefully curated that there really is…
SLCZF 2023! It would be remiss, to say the least, not to include a review of the work of the South London Comic and Zine Fair’s founder as part of…
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